Nico Slate
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 226814 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nico Slate |
| NOMBRES | Nico |
| APELLIDO | Slate |
| FIRMA | SLATE N |
| AFILIACIONES | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8591-1687 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
If It Happens to Them, It Happens to You”
This article draws on videotapes made of workshops convened in the 1980s at the Highlander Research and Education Center in order to chronicle the origins, failures, and lasting promise of an interracial environmental justice movement. Highlander’s workshops reveal a largely forgotten effort to create an environmental justice movement that opposed environmental racism as well as the class-based inequities that cut across the color line. Although …
Writing My Brother’s Story
What does it mean for a white historian to write a memoir about his mixed-race older brother? Examining the challenge of writing across the borders of race and history and drawing on the work of memoirists and historians who have written about their own family histories, this essay reflects on memory, guilt, and gratitude
Translating nonviolence
Recent scholarship has challenged a simplistic transmission model of the diffusion of nonviolence within the American civil rights movement. Yet many historical studies remain focused on the spread of content communicated by experts and, in particular, on the relative degree to which activists adhered to what Gandhi called ahimsa, a term that is often translated as “non‐harm” or “non‐violence,” but which carried a range of meanings for Gandhi and…
The Geography of Nonviolence
In the summer of 1954, the Highlander Folk School, a racially integrated institution located in the hills of Tennessee, hosted a series of workshops on the United Nations. Highlander's UN workshops cultivated a grassroots globalism that aimed to connect the UN to local action on behalf of racial integration. Yet while the workshops helped raise awareness about the work of the UN, they failed to directly link such global awareness to local action …
The Radical Civil Rights Movement
In the spring of 1965, hundreds of billboards arose across the American South purporting to show Dr Martin Luther King Jr at a 'Communist training school'. By tracing the history of that infamous image, this article examines how civil rights activists fought against racist propaganda, and argues that the legacies of the American Left remained vital to the civil rights movement despite Cold War repression. At the centre of this story is the Highla…
Debating disadvantage
In the early 1960s, colleges and universities in the United States launched dozens of new pre-college programmes for low-income and predominantly African American high school students. Many of these initiatives were inspired by the civil rights movement. Moved by the sit-ins, marches and boycotts that had riveted the nation, a range of educators – mostly university professors and administrators – created new programmes to help students ill-served…
The drama of nonviolence
Role-play was a popular educational strategy within the American civil rights movement. Many civil rights activists performed the movement in private before performing it again in public. Compared to the scholarship on the role of music in the civil rights movement, the importance of drama has been understudied. The history of role-play as an educational strategy provides new insights into the relationship between performance and nonviolent activ…
The Answers Come from The People”
Scholars have demonstrated that a range of institutions, organizations, and “social movement schools” aimed to advance the civil rights movement through education. What remains unclear is how those institutions balanced conversation, direct instruction, role-play, and other pedagogical methods. This article focuses on the Highlander Folk School, a radical, racially integrated institution located in the hills of Tennessee. Drawing upon audio tapes…
Between Utopia and Jim Crow
Voting as Theater
This essay explores the use of theater in defense of the right to vote. I focus in particular on dramatic works that followed conventional theatrical norms but in nonconventional settings and with the explicit purpose of advancing—and reimagining—the Civil Rights Movement. Analyzing such neglected works of civil rights drama offers a unique lens on the relationship between theater and the long African American Freedom Struggle—and on the borders …
A Dangerous Idea
While some American civil rights activists professed belief in the “philosophy of nonviolence,” others declared nonviolent civil disobedience to be “a tactic rather than a philosophy.” Like many dichotomies, the tactic-versus-philosophy distinction combined as much as it divided. Those who viewed nonviolence as a tactic or method were treated as akin regardless of how much they differed in their tactics or methods. Similarly, those who believed i…
From the Tricontinental to the Global South
In January 1966 representatives from eighty-two nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas gathered in Havana, Cuba. Among the 512 delegates and 270 observers were the future president of Chile, Salvador Allende; Guinea-Bissau's Amílcar Cabral; and renowned artists such as Josephine Baker and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. United by their opposition to racism and imperialism, participants forged the Organization of Solidarity with the Peo…
From Mealie Pap to Peanut Milk
In jail in South Africa in January 1908, Mahatma Gandhi was served a South African breakfast staple known as mealie pap. Gandhi associated mealie pap with black South Africans and rejected it as unsuitable for Indians. One year later, however, he revised his opinion and actively encouraged Indians to eat mealie pap. Tracing Gandhi’s evolving approach to mealie pap reveals a profound shift in Gandhi’s views on race and diet. That shift was made vi…
From Colored Cosmopolitanism to Human Rights
The last twenty years have witnessed an outpouring of scholarship on the transnational dimensions of the African American freedom struggle. Drawing on that scholarship, this essay offers a synthetic overview of the global civil rights movement from two specific and distinct lenses: human rights and colored solidarity. Beginning in the 1920s, notions of a dark or colored world connected African Americans to anti-imperial and antiracist movements a…
Seema Sohi. Echoes of Mutiny
In August 1914, soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Jawala Singh, a wealthy California farmer known as the Potato King, donated his property to a revolutionary political party and sailed to his native India to fight against British imperialism. Singh was not alone. The organization that inherited his land, the Ghadar Party, had gained the support of thousands of Indian migrants up and down the coast of North America. Ghadar means “reb…
The Prism of Race
A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relatio
Race as freedom
Born across racial lines, Cedric Dover and Barack Obama both came to identify with the African American community. By contrasting the lives and ideas of two mixed-race individuals, one born in Calcutta and the other in Hawaii, this article examines cosmopolitanism, racial formation and the promise of the 'post-racial'. A 'Eurasian' intellectual born in Calcutta in 1904, Dover developed a coloured cosmopolitanism that mirrors in revealing ways Oba…
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
The story of South Asian migration to the United States is normally told in two parts. First, a few thousand Indians, mostly Punjabi Sikhs, arrive on the West Coast in the first decades of the twentieth century. They tend farms, mill lumber, and build railroads. After World War I, new immigration laws cut off migration from India. Not until 1965, when immigration reform opens the door to professionals, does a new generation of South Asians arrive…
Black power beyond borders
Introduction. The Borders of Black Power Nico Slate PART I: THE ROOTS OF BLACK POWER 1. Rethinking Radicalism: African Americans and the Liberation Struggles in Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea, 1945-1949 Carol Anderson 2. The Activism of George McCray: Confluence and Conflict of Pan-Africanism and Transnational Labor Solidarity Yevette Richards 3. When the Panther Travels: Race and the Southern Diaspora in the History of the BPP, 1964 - 1972 Donna Mu…
Black Power beyond Borders
This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other pa
America's Best Weekly
America’s Best Weekly: A Century of the Pittsburgh Courier.” Senator John Heinz History Center. Pittsburgh, Penn. http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/exhibits.aspx?ExhibitID=23. Temporary exhibition, Feb. 11–June 2, 2012. 2,400 sq. ft. Samuel Black, curator; Lauren Uhl, assistant curator; Michael Dubois, exhibit designer; Brad Burmeister, exhibit production; Jaclyn Esposito, graphic and A/V production. The most widely circulated African American we…
Colored Cosmopolitanism
A hidden history connects India and the United States, the world's two largest democracies. From the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, activists worked across borders of race and nation to push both countries toward achieving their democratic principles. At the heart of this shared struggle, African Americans and Indians forged bonds ranging from statements of sympathy to coordinated acts of solidarity. Within these two groups, certain a…
Translating Race and Caste
In the late nineteenth century, Indian and African American social reformers began to compare struggles against racial oppression in the United States with movements against caste oppression in India. The majority of these reformers ignored what was lost in translating messy particularities of identity, status and hierarchy into the words "race" and "caste" and then again translating between these words. While exploring the limitations of such a …
I am a colored woman’
In the midst of the Second World War, feminist, socialist, and anti-colonial activist Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya spent 18 months travelling and speaking in the United States. She aimed to increase American support for Indian independence, while establishing connections with American feminists and African Americans, and defending the rights of women and people of colour throughout the world. Kamaladevi championed a coloured cosmopolitanism that def…
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, the intersection of Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Q St., N.W., and 21st St., N.W., Washington, DC 20008. Permanent memorial, dedicated Sept. 16, 2000. Free. Sculpture, 8 ft. 8 in. high. Pedestal, 9 ft. long, 7 ft. wide, 3 ft. 4 in. high. Gautam Pal, sculptor; A+E Collective, architects. Internet: description of memorial, photographs, related links, http://www.indianembassy.org/gandhi/index.html. In the spring of 1945, Denton …
Translating Race and Caste
In the late nineteenth century, Indian and African American social reformers began to compare struggles against racial oppression in the United States with movements against caste oppression in India. The majority of these reformers ignored what was lost in translating messy particularities of identity, status and hierarchy into the words "race" and "caste" and then again translating between these words. While exploring the limitations of such a …
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
The story of South Asian migration to the United States is normally told in two parts. First, a few thousand Indians, mostly Punjabi Sikhs, arrive on the West Coast in the first decades of the twentieth century. They tend farms, mill lumber, and build railroads. After World War I, new immigration laws cut off migration from India. Not until 1965, when immigration reform opens the door to professionals, does a new generation of South Asians arrive…
From the Tricontinental to the Global South
In January 1966 representatives from eighty-two nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas gathered in Havana, Cuba. Among the 512 delegates and 270 observers were the future president of Chile, Salvador Allende; Guinea-Bissau's Amílcar Cabral; and renowned artists such as Josephine Baker and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. United by their opposition to racism and imperialism, participants forged the Organization of Solidarity with the Peo…
I am a colored woman’
In the midst of the Second World War, feminist, socialist, and anti-colonial activist Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya spent 18 months travelling and speaking in the United States. She aimed to increase American support for Indian independence, while establishing connections with American feminists and African Americans, and defending the rights of women and people of colour throughout the world. Kamaladevi championed a coloured cosmopolitanism that def…
The Answers Come from The People”
Scholars have demonstrated that a range of institutions, organizations, and “social movement schools” aimed to advance the civil rights movement through education. What remains unclear is how those institutions balanced conversation, direct instruction, role-play, and other pedagogical methods. This article focuses on the Highlander Folk School, a radical, racially integrated institution located in the hills of Tennessee. Drawing upon audio tapes…
A Dangerous Idea
While some American civil rights activists professed belief in the “philosophy of nonviolence,” others declared nonviolent civil disobedience to be “a tactic rather than a philosophy.” Like many dichotomies, the tactic-versus-philosophy distinction combined as much as it divided. Those who viewed nonviolence as a tactic or method were treated as akin regardless of how much they differed in their tactics or methods. Similarly, those who believed i…
Race as freedom
Born across racial lines, Cedric Dover and Barack Obama both came to identify with the African American community. By contrasting the lives and ideas of two mixed-race individuals, one born in Calcutta and the other in Hawaii, this article examines cosmopolitanism, racial formation and the promise of the 'post-racial'. A 'Eurasian' intellectual born in Calcutta in 1904, Dover developed a coloured cosmopolitanism that mirrors in revealing ways Oba…
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, the intersection of Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Q St., N.W., and 21st St., N.W., Washington, DC 20008. Permanent memorial, dedicated Sept. 16, 2000. Free. Sculpture, 8 ft. 8 in. high. Pedestal, 9 ft. long, 7 ft. wide, 3 ft. 4 in. high. Gautam Pal, sculptor; A+E Collective, architects. Internet: description of memorial, photographs, related links, http://www.indianembassy.org/gandhi/index.html. In the spring of 1945, Denton …
I am a colored woman’
In the midst of the Second World War, feminist, socialist, and anti-colonial activist Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya spent 18 months travelling and speaking in the United States. She aimed to increase American support for Indian independence, while establishing connections with American feminists and African Americans, and defending the rights of women and people of colour throughout the world. Kamaladevi championed a coloured cosmopolitanism that def…
Colored Cosmopolitanism
A hidden history connects India and the United States, the world's two largest democracies. From the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, activists worked across borders of race and nation to push both countries toward achieving their democratic principles. At the heart of this shared struggle, African Americans and Indians forged bonds ranging from statements of sympathy to coordinated acts of solidarity. Within these two groups, certain a…
Translating Race and Caste
In the late nineteenth century, Indian and African American social reformers began to compare struggles against racial oppression in the United States with movements against caste oppression in India. The majority of these reformers ignored what was lost in translating messy particularities of identity, status and hierarchy into the words "race" and "caste" and then again translating between these words. While exploring the limitations of such a …
Black power beyond borders
Introduction. The Borders of Black Power Nico Slate PART I: THE ROOTS OF BLACK POWER 1. Rethinking Radicalism: African Americans and the Liberation Struggles in Somalia, Libya, and Eritrea, 1945-1949 Carol Anderson 2. The Activism of George McCray: Confluence and Conflict of Pan-Africanism and Transnational Labor Solidarity Yevette Richards 3. When the Panther Travels: Race and the Southern Diaspora in the History of the BPP, 1964 - 1972 Donna Mu…
Black Power beyond Borders
This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other pa
America's Best Weekly
America’s Best Weekly: A Century of the Pittsburgh Courier.” Senator John Heinz History Center. Pittsburgh, Penn. http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/exhibits.aspx?ExhibitID=23. Temporary exhibition, Feb. 11–June 2, 2012. 2,400 sq. ft. Samuel Black, curator; Lauren Uhl, assistant curator; Michael Dubois, exhibit designer; Brad Burmeister, exhibit production; Jaclyn Esposito, graphic and A/V production. The most widely circulated African American we…
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
The story of South Asian migration to the United States is normally told in two parts. First, a few thousand Indians, mostly Punjabi Sikhs, arrive on the West Coast in the first decades of the twentieth century. They tend farms, mill lumber, and build railroads. After World War I, new immigration laws cut off migration from India. Not until 1965, when immigration reform opens the door to professionals, does a new generation of South Asians arrive…
The Prism of Race
A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relatio
Race as freedom
Born across racial lines, Cedric Dover and Barack Obama both came to identify with the African American community. By contrasting the lives and ideas of two mixed-race individuals, one born in Calcutta and the other in Hawaii, this article examines cosmopolitanism, racial formation and the promise of the 'post-racial'. A 'Eurasian' intellectual born in Calcutta in 1904, Dover developed a coloured cosmopolitanism that mirrors in revealing ways Oba…
From Colored Cosmopolitanism to Human Rights
The last twenty years have witnessed an outpouring of scholarship on the transnational dimensions of the African American freedom struggle. Drawing on that scholarship, this essay offers a synthetic overview of the global civil rights movement from two specific and distinct lenses: human rights and colored solidarity. Beginning in the 1920s, notions of a dark or colored world connected African Americans to anti-imperial and antiracist movements a…
Seema Sohi. Echoes of Mutiny
In August 1914, soon after the outbreak of the First World War, Jawala Singh, a wealthy California farmer known as the Potato King, donated his property to a revolutionary political party and sailed to his native India to fight against British imperialism. Singh was not alone. The organization that inherited his land, the Ghadar Party, had gained the support of thousands of Indian migrants up and down the coast of North America. Ghadar means “reb…
From Mealie Pap to Peanut Milk
In jail in South Africa in January 1908, Mahatma Gandhi was served a South African breakfast staple known as mealie pap. Gandhi associated mealie pap with black South Africans and rejected it as unsuitable for Indians. One year later, however, he revised his opinion and actively encouraged Indians to eat mealie pap. Tracing Gandhi’s evolving approach to mealie pap reveals a profound shift in Gandhi’s views on race and diet. That shift was made vi…
From the Tricontinental to the Global South
In January 1966 representatives from eighty-two nations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas gathered in Havana, Cuba. Among the 512 delegates and 270 observers were the future president of Chile, Salvador Allende; Guinea-Bissau's Amílcar Cabral; and renowned artists such as Josephine Baker and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. United by their opposition to racism and imperialism, participants forged the Organization of Solidarity with the Peo…
A Dangerous Idea
While some American civil rights activists professed belief in the “philosophy of nonviolence,” others declared nonviolent civil disobedience to be “a tactic rather than a philosophy.” Like many dichotomies, the tactic-versus-philosophy distinction combined as much as it divided. Those who viewed nonviolence as a tactic or method were treated as akin regardless of how much they differed in their tactics or methods. Similarly, those who believed i…
Debating disadvantage
In the early 1960s, colleges and universities in the United States launched dozens of new pre-college programmes for low-income and predominantly African American high school students. Many of these initiatives were inspired by the civil rights movement. Moved by the sit-ins, marches and boycotts that had riveted the nation, a range of educators – mostly university professors and administrators – created new programmes to help students ill-served…
The drama of nonviolence
Role-play was a popular educational strategy within the American civil rights movement. Many civil rights activists performed the movement in private before performing it again in public. Compared to the scholarship on the role of music in the civil rights movement, the importance of drama has been understudied. The history of role-play as an educational strategy provides new insights into the relationship between performance and nonviolent activ…
The Answers Come from The People”
Scholars have demonstrated that a range of institutions, organizations, and “social movement schools” aimed to advance the civil rights movement through education. What remains unclear is how those institutions balanced conversation, direct instruction, role-play, and other pedagogical methods. This article focuses on the Highlander Folk School, a radical, racially integrated institution located in the hills of Tennessee. Drawing upon audio tapes…
Between Utopia and Jim Crow
Voting as Theater
This essay explores the use of theater in defense of the right to vote. I focus in particular on dramatic works that followed conventional theatrical norms but in nonconventional settings and with the explicit purpose of advancing—and reimagining—the Civil Rights Movement. Analyzing such neglected works of civil rights drama offers a unique lens on the relationship between theater and the long African American Freedom Struggle—and on the borders …
Translating nonviolence
Recent scholarship has challenged a simplistic transmission model of the diffusion of nonviolence within the American civil rights movement. Yet many historical studies remain focused on the spread of content communicated by experts and, in particular, on the relative degree to which activists adhered to what Gandhi called ahimsa, a term that is often translated as “non‐harm” or “non‐violence,” but which carried a range of meanings for Gandhi and…
The Geography of Nonviolence
In the summer of 1954, the Highlander Folk School, a racially integrated institution located in the hills of Tennessee, hosted a series of workshops on the United Nations. Highlander's UN workshops cultivated a grassroots globalism that aimed to connect the UN to local action on behalf of racial integration. Yet while the workshops helped raise awareness about the work of the UN, they failed to directly link such global awareness to local action …
The Radical Civil Rights Movement
In the spring of 1965, hundreds of billboards arose across the American South purporting to show Dr Martin Luther King Jr at a 'Communist training school'. By tracing the history of that infamous image, this article examines how civil rights activists fought against racist propaganda, and argues that the legacies of the American Left remained vital to the civil rights movement despite Cold War repression. At the centre of this story is the Highla…
If It Happens to Them, It Happens to You”
This article draws on videotapes made of workshops convened in the 1980s at the Highlander Research and Education Center in order to chronicle the origins, failures, and lasting promise of an interracial environmental justice movement. Highlander’s workshops reveal a largely forgotten effort to create an environmental justice movement that opposed environmental racism as well as the class-based inequities that cut across the color line. Although …
Writing My Brother’s Story
What does it mean for a white historian to write a memoir about his mixed-race older brother? Examining the challenge of writing across the borders of race and history and drawing on the work of memoirists and historians who have written about their own family histories, this essay reflects on memory, guilt, and gratitude
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